Rabbi YY Kazen

1954-1998

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kazen, OBM, "father of the Jewish Internet"

He spent long hours hunched over flickering screens,
fielding questions and posting
on message boards. Even before the invention of the World Wide Web, Rabbi
YosefYitzchok Kazen, known as YY, envisioned
a world where Jewish teachings, inspiration and information would be
available everywhere.

He passed away in 1998 at the age of 44, after a decade of building the Jewish
internet, but his vision lives on in Chabad.org and the millions of mitzvahs
performed as a result of his groundbreaking work.